This year Concordia hosted its first Mental Health Awareness week that started Nov. 14. A mental health panel made up of five students and two faculty members spoke from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Students shared their experiences with mental illness and the faculty also did this, but additionally offered another perspective about the relationships…
As the national average for suicide and depression among college students continues to rise, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, Concordia’s understaffed Counseling Center is struggling to help students in need. The Counseling Center has four full-time staff members, and only two are licensed counselors. For a school of nearly 2,500 undergraduates, the…
Wednesday night’s mental illness student panel hosted by Concordia’s Active Minds drew a crowd that required a switch to a larger venue not once, but twice to accommodate the turnout. A parade of approximately 200 students shuffled through the halls of Jones Science building, moving from room to room, vying for seats, and eager to…
Terrifying numbers of shootings in recent months have spurred talks about gun control in relation to mental illness. Many politicians are pointing to mental illness as a leading cause of gun violence. While it’s true that more energy and resources need to be put into our broken mental health system, mental health laws spurred by…